Immigration reform: Four poison-pill amendments being considered

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Twice burned, Republicans are treading carefully around tea party groups as they pursue a Senate majority that slipped through their fingers in 2010 and 2012. "You'd have to be an idiot not to prepare" for primary challenges, says one past director of the Republicans' Senate campaign committee. Strongly conservative candidates have captured primaries in the past two election cycles, only to lose winnable races in the fall. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Immigration reform: Four poison pill amendments

A key Senate committee will likely reject a number of poison pill amendments designed to kill the proposed bipartisan immigration bill today.Among the 301 amendments proposed by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are a few that would either gut the bill's central provisions or dramatically change how it works.Backers of the proposal on the committee are expected to have the votes against the proposals and not all may come up for a vote. But they show the depth of …